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Professor Emeritus Wayles Browne Publishes Book
Professor Emeritus Wayles Browne's book, The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics, is now available through Cambridge Publishing.
Read moreOur faculty are interested in many different aspects of language: how we speak, understand and learn language; how languages change over time; how computers can understand and generate language; and how social and cultural contexts influence language. Undergraduate and graduate students study these and other aspects of language through our diverse course offerings. Our academic programs allow students the flexibility to develop programs of study specific to their personal goals and interests.
Linguistics attempts to answer such questions as:
Students interested in learning more about linguistics and its relationship to other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to take Linguistics 1101, a general overview that is a prerequisite for most other courses in the field or one of the first-year writing seminars offered in linguistics (on topics such as metaphor, language processing and disorders, English outside the box and the language instinct). Linguistics 1101 and our other introductory courses fulfill various distribution requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Most of our 1100- and 2200-level courses have no prerequisites. These cover various topics in linguistics or the historical development of particular languages:
Professor Emeritus Wayles Browne's book, The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics, is now available through Cambridge Publishing.
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